This extraordinary work - which continued until 1925 and is unquestionably the most complete realization of the Cubist movement in the arts - was neglected for years and has rarely been seen outside Eastern Europe. Replacing construction, function and materials, artistic form became the most important factor in design: the result was a visionary architecture, animating matter with the creative spirit, and startling and vibrant furniture, characterized by exaggerated angles, cut-off corners and sloping planes. From 1910, avant garden architects in Prague, including Josef Gocar, Pavel Janak, Vlastislav Hofman and Josef Chochol, seized on this new aesthetics and made it their own, translating it into architecture and the applied arts. "In Paris at the beginning of the twentieth century a unique dialogue between Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque gave rise to a new artistic language - Cubism. Large hardcover book in good used condition Czech Cubism: Architecture, Furniture and Decorative Arts 1910-1925
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